81 Facts About HP Lovecraft

Howard Phillips HP Lovecraft was an American writer of weird, science, fantasy, and horror fiction.

HP Lovecraft then lived with his mother, in reduced financial security, until her institutionalization in 1919.

HP Lovecraft moved to New York City, marrying Sonia Greene in 1924, and later became the center of a wider group of authors known as the "HP Lovecraft Circle".

HP Lovecraft'sworks were largely set in a fictionalized version of New England.

HP Lovecraft was born in his family home on August 20,1890, in Providence, Rhode Island.

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HP Lovecraft'sdeath certificate listed the cause of death as general paresis, a term synonymous with late-stage syphilis.

HP Lovecraft later recollected that his mother was "permanently stricken with grief" after his father's illness.

Whipple encouraged the young HP Lovecraft to have an appreciation of literature, especially classical literature and English poetry.

HP Lovecraft and educated him not only in the classics, but in original weird tales of "winged horrors" and "deep, low, moaning sounds" which he created for his grandchild's entertainment.

HP Lovecraft himself guessed that they originated from Gothic novelists like Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis, and Charles Maturin.

HP Lovecraft's earliest known literary works were written at the age of seven, and were poems restyling the Odyssey and other Greco-Roman mythological stories.

HP Lovecraft went in and out of elementary school repeatedly, oftentimes with home tutors making up for the lost years, missing time due to health concerns that have not been determined.

HP Lovecraft called this time one of the darkest of his life, remarking in a 1934 letter that he saw no point in living anymore; he considered the possibility of committing suicide.

Much like his earlier school years, HP Lovecraft was periodically removed from school for long periods for what he termed "near breakdowns".

HP Lovecraft performed well academically, excelling in particular at chemistry and physics.

Whether HP Lovecraft suffered from a physical ailment, a mental one, or some combination thereof has never been determined.

An account from a high school classmate described HP Lovecraft as exhibiting "terrible tics" and that at times "he'd be sitting in his seat and he'd suddenly up and jump".

HP Lovecraft described the steady continuation of their financial decline highlighted by his uncle's failed business that cost Susie a large portion of their already dwindling wealth.

HP Lovecraft found his studies were stymied by the mathematics involved, which he found boring and would cause headaches that would incapacitate him for the remainder of the day.

Daas invited Russell and HP Lovecraft to join the organization and both accepted, HP Lovecraft in April 1914.

HP Lovecraft immersed himself in the world of amateur journalism for most of the following decade.

HP Lovecraft defined commercialism as writing for what he considered low-brow publications for pay.

HP Lovecraft was appointed chairman of the Department of Public Criticism of the UAPA in late 1914.

In 1916, HP Lovecraft published his first short story, "The Alchemist", in the main UAPA journal, which was a departure from his usual verse.

HP Lovecraft published another short story, "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" in 1919, which was his first science fiction story.

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In 1917, as HP Lovecraft related to Kleiner, HP Lovecraft made an aborted attempt to enlist in the United States Army.

HP Lovecraft's initial reaction, expressed in a letter written nine days after Susie's death, was a deep state of sadness that crippled him physically and emotionally.

Greene, who had been married before, later said HP Lovecraft had performed satisfactorily as a lover, though she had to take the initiative in all aspects of the relationship.

On January 1,1925, Sonia moved from Parkside to Cleveland in response to a job opportunity, and HP Lovecraft left for a small first-floor apartment on 169 Clinton Street "at the edge of Red Hook"—a location which came to discomfort him greatly.

Loveman was Jewish, but he and HP Lovecraft became close friends in spite of the latter's antisemitic attitudes.

HP Lovecraft made efforts to support his wife through regular jobs, but his lack of previous work experience meant he lacked proven marketable skills.

The publisher of Weird Tales was attempting to make the loss-making magazine profitable and offered the job of editor to HP Lovecraft, who declined, citing his reluctance to relocate to Chicago on aesthetic grounds.

Back in Providence, HP Lovecraft lived with his aunts in a "spacious brown Victorian wooden house" at 10 Barnes Street until 1933.

The former story represents a partial repudiation of Dunsany's influence, as HP Lovecraft had decided that his style did not come to him naturally.

Client Harry Houdini was laudatory, and attempted to help HP Lovecraft by introducing him to the head of a newspaper syndicate.

Editor Farnsworth Wright forwarded the letter to HP Lovecraft, who responded positively to Howard, and soon the two writers were engaged in a vigorous correspondence that would last for the rest of Howard's life.

Meanwhile, HP Lovecraft was increasingly producing work that brought him no remuneration.

However, HP Lovecraft was displeased, as this book was riddled with errors that required extensive editing.

Almost immediately after hearing about Howard's death, HP Lovecraft wrote a brief memoir titled "In Memoriam: Robert Ervin Howard", which he distributed to his correspondents.

HP Lovecraft was listed along with his parents on the Phillips family monument.

HP Lovecraft began his life as a Tory, which was likely the result of his conservative upbringing.

HP Lovecraft'sfamily supported the Republican Party for the entirety of his life.

HP Lovecraft himself was an Anglophile who supported the British monarchy.

One of the main points of HP Lovecraft's socialism was its opposition to Soviet Marxism, as he thought that a Marxist revolution would bring about the destruction of American civilization.

HP Lovecraft thought that an intellectual aristocracy needed to be formed to preserve America.

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HP Lovecraft used this essay to echo the political proposals that had been made over the course of the last few decades.

HP Lovecraft had varied views on the political figures of his day.

HP Lovecraft ceased writing positively about progress, instead developing his later cosmic philosophy.

HP Lovecraft became pessimistic when he entered amateur journalism in 1914.

HP Lovecraft took to discussing and debating his pessimism with his peers, which allowed him to solidify his philosophy.

Race is the most controversial aspect of HP Lovecraft's legacy, expressed in many disparaging remarks against non-Anglo-Saxon races and cultures in his works.

HP Lovecraft'sarguments were supported using disparagements of various races in his journalism and letters, and allegorically in his fictional works that depict non-human races.

HP Lovecraft'sshift was partially the result of his exposure to different cultures through his travels and circle.

At the age of five, HP Lovecraft enjoyed reading One Thousand and One Nights, and was reading Nathaniel Hawthorne a year later.

HP Lovecraft was a keen amateur astronomer from his youth, often visiting the Ladd Observatory in Providence, and penning numerous astronomical articles for his personal journal and local newspapers.

In 1991, as a result of his rising place in American literature, it was popularly thought that HP Lovecraft extensively transcribed his dreams when writing fiction.

HP Lovecraft first articulated this philosophy in 1921, but he did not fully incorporate it into his fiction until five years later.

HP Lovecraft's fiction reflects his own ambivalent views regarding the nature of knowledge.

Much of his life, HP Lovecraft was fixated on the concepts of decline and decadence.

The main Spenglerian influence on HP Lovecraft would be his view that politics, economics, science, and art are all interdependent aspects of civilization.

HP Lovecraft had developed his idea of Western decline independently, but Spengler gave it a clear framework.

HP Lovecraft shifted supernatural horror away from its previous focus on human issues to a focus on cosmic ones.

HP Lovecraft used this combined knowledge to create stories that extensively reference trends in scientific development.

HP Lovecraft was primarily inspired by the cities and towns in Massachusetts.

However, the specific location of HP Lovecraft Country is variable, as it moved according to HP Lovecraft's literary needs.

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For example, HP Lovecraft based Arkham on the town of Oakham and expanded it to include a nearby landmark.

Two years before Wilson's critique, HP Lovecraft's works were reviewed by Winfield Townley Scott, the literary editor of The Providence Journal.

Subsequently, HP Lovecraft began to acquire the status of a cult writer in the counterculture of the 1960s, and reprints of his work proliferated.

Los Angeles Review of Books reviewer Nick Mamatas has stated that HP Lovecraft was a particularly difficult author, rather than a bad one.

However, HP Lovecraft's difficulty made him ill-suited to the pulps; he was unable to compete with the popular recurring protagonists and damsel-in-distress stories.

In Mamatas' view, HP Lovecraft's quality is obscured by his difficulty, and his skill is what has allowed his following to outlive the followings of other then-prominent authors, such as Seabury Quinn and Kenneth Patchen.

Joshi have argued that HP Lovecraft consciously utilized a variety of literary devices to form a unique style of his own—these include prose-poetic rhythm, stream of consciousness, alliteration, and conscious archaism.

The anti-idealism of HP Lovecraft is represented through his commentary on the inability of language to describe his horrors.

Harman credits HP Lovecraft with inspiring parts of his own articulation of object-oriented ontology.

Until 2015, winners were presented with an elongated bust of HP Lovecraft that was designed by cartoonist Gahan Wilson, nicknamed the "Howard".

In 2016, HP Lovecraft was inducted into the Museum of Pop Culture's Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.

HP Lovecraft's improving literary reputation has caused his works to receive increased attention by both classics publishers and scholarly fans.

HP Lovecraft'sworks have been published by several different series of literary classics.

HP Lovecraft has influenced gaming, despite having personally disliked games during his lifetime.

Joshi have estimated that HP Lovecraft wrote 100,000 letters in his lifetime, a fifth of which are believed to survive.

However, since April 1926 at the latest, HP Lovecraft had reserved all second printing rights to stories published in Weird Tales.